📢فراخوان ارسال مقاله برای همایش «معماری و قدرت بوروکراسی»🔸مکان و زمان برگزاری: وین، ۶-۷ نوامبر ۲۰۲۵ | ۱۵- ۱۶ آبان ۱۴۰۴
🔸مهلت ارسال پیشنهاده: ۳۰ آوریل ۲۰۲۵ |۱۰ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۴
"Architecture and the Power of Bureaucracy"
The term "bureaucracy" refers to the organisation of people, processes, and to paperwork. Bureaucracy is often used as a synonym for inefficiency and disinterest, as the so-called "fifth form of rule by irresponsible officials who are not at risk" (Männle 2023). However, bureaucracy can also indicate high efficiency, control, and power (Blau, Meyer 1971). With the advent of the modern state, civil servants commissioned (public) architecture and urban plans by making decisions and setting rules such as regulations, laws, and standards. Although bureaucrats and bureaucracies may aim and perceive their agenda as neutral, the actual impact and influence can be both constructive and destructive.
Although bureaucracy is an inevitable element in the development of the built environment, it does not represent a common denominator in the realm of modern architecture. The conference will explore the material implications of bureaucratic measures, arguing that they already strongly impacted architectural practice and urban form in the late nineteenth century and modern periods. The objective of this conference is to incorporate bureaucracy into the discourse on architectural theory and history as an indispensable element and a powerful factor in the process of constructing a building.
We aim to ask the following questions:
- To what extent did bureaucracy shape the built environment, and to what extent did it challenge it?
- What was the impact of bureaucracy in different political regimes?
- How were reform, normalisation, standardisation, and prefabrication reflected in the bureaucratic processes? And to what extent did bureaucracy introduce and require them?
- How did artistic creativity clash with bureaucracy?
- What relationship did the architects have with the bureaucratic apparatus? Did they merely suffer its existence or strive to tame it or use its power to support their agenda and if so, was it a means to magnify their ideas on architecture or gain lucrative commissions?
- Can we indicate bureaucracy as a positive means in architecture?
- How might the answer to these questions shape a critical understanding of bureaucracy in architectural historiography?
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